# Senior Risk Specialist

**Company**: Capital One
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,500 - $110,100 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a strategic and forward-thinking Senior Risk Specialist for our Retail Risk Office Control Testing Program, supporting Retail Bank and Premium Products + Shopping business divisions.

In this role, you will use your strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help deliver on our first-line controls testing program. You will need a well-developed risk and control mindset, strong judgment, and the ability to influence priorities across the Lines of Defense teams to execute on a strong testing program while helping to effectively manage capacity.

As part of this horizontal 1st Line risk management function, this associate will also have the unique opportunity to become a subject matter expert in the processes and controls across specific business areas within our Retail Bank, Premium Products, Capital One Shopping, and Enterprise Payments organization.

**Responsibilities:**

- Collaborate with business Process Owners and Risk Advisors to assess control activities and recommend control enhancements as needed.

- Engage and advise our business and risk partners on how to design effective controls in our control environment related to business risks in addition to regulatory and internal policy requirements.

- Identify and assist with remediation of identified gaps in our control environment due to regulatory and internal policy updates.

- Explore and collaborate with business and risk office partners in root cause analysis for ineffective control results.

- Contribute to reporting necessary to inform the Accountable Executives and other key stakeholders on the status of control suite effectiveness and issue remediation.

- Perform quality reviews and assessments on control testing results.

- Validate the effectiveness of remediation efforts for issues generated from Audits, Regulatory Exams, and various other assessments.

- Possess solid verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively and present to a range of Risk Office, business, and functional stakeholder groups.

- Apply sound inquiry and analysis to make recommendations and decisions.

- Be intellectually curious to question the obvious, explore options, and develop alternatives.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- At least 1 year of experience in Control Testing or Risk Management

- At least 1 year of Financial Services, Audit, or Risk Management experience

- At least 1 year of experience supporting, partnering, and interacting with internal business clients

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 2+ years of experience in Project or Process Management

- 2+ years of experience in Controls Testing or Risk Management

- 2+ years of experience supporting, partnering, and interacting with internal business clients

**Salary Information:**

- McLean, VA: $96,500 - $110,100 per year

- Richmond, VA: $87,700 - $100,100 per year

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being

## Skills

### Required
- Control Testing
- Risk Management
- Financial Services
- Audit

### Nice to have
- Project Management
- Process Management

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